Brooklyn, NY – Five Brooklyn post offices are among the 3,700 retail locations across the country that the U.S. Postal Service is reviewing for possible closure.
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These locations are at 55th Street and Seventh Avenue in Sunset Park; inside the Brooklyn Municipal Building on Joralemon Street; at Restoration Plaza on Fulton Street in Bedford-Stuyvesant; the Ovington postal station at Fourth Avenue and 68th Street; and Brighton Finance on Coney Island Avenue in Brighton Beach.
The five are among 45 that the Postal Service is considering closing in New York City. Some of these are full-fledged post offices; others are “postal stations,” selling stamps and receiving packages within other commercial businesses.
In a statement, U.S. Postmaster General Patrick Donahoe said customers are not using offices as much as they used to.
“Our customer’s habits have made it clear that they no longer require a physical post office to conduct most of their postal business,” said Donahoe.
May as well close the 11213 Post Office on S. Johns Place in Crown Heights. The service there is probably the worst in the nation. Its less time consuming to go to the central post office on 8th Ave. in Manhattan, then standing on line there.
The Post Office does not care when a package you send under their care never arrives to it’s destination. No wonder why FED EX and UPS are taking away their business.
Close’em all, its a waste of tax dollars,
This is the worst mis-managed un-professional bzns I have ever seen!
I ordered something on ebay 3 weeks ago the tracking # showes allready 2 weeks “undeliverable”! No1 knowes where it is, its Crazy!
There is a reason UPS n FEDEX show strong profits every year and USPS loses money every Day,
In the catskills I see there’s a post office approx every 5 miles. In average each branch probably serves 1,000 people. Whereas in brooklyn, each branch serves an everage of 50,000 people.
Why in the world would they consider closing 5 branches in brooklyn?
Privatize it…the infrastructure is solid. Get some executives in there to restructure its operations. I think it’s the oldest courier service in the nation. Potential is definitely there.
i think almost everyone thinks their post office is the worst, i know the one in kensington is pretty awful
l say tehillim awhile waiting,but l to generally don’t use the post office like l used to,l also had a problem,the guy in the p.o said it was not address to us right,he read it and l told him that’s our address alright and my sister made a sinko and it came
Oh, maybe they’ll take the GOOD workers from those closing post offices and send them to 11213 or 11255. Oh my gosh, must be the laziest worst workers at those branches, EVER. Its no wonder the post office is losing money!
I never use the post office, and haven’t been in a post office facility in years. I order my stamps over the Internet. The last time I did so, the stamps were packed in a long, tube-like structure. There were no instructions pertaining how to open that device, and it took a hammer and a screwdriver (even then, it was not easy to extricate the contents), to open it. When I sent an e-mail to the USPS for an explanation, as to why the stamps were packed in such a ridiculous manner, they stated that they would “investigate”. To this day, over six months later, I’ve never received an explanation. Some of the stamps which were packed were also bent. Incidentlaly, I never use the USPS to send packages; I’ve use FedEX, and occasionally UPS. The Government should permit private business to compete with the post office, by allowing delivery of first class mail. Years ago, we knew who the delivery man was. Today, there seems to be a new carrier, every other week. Many of them could care less, when they either intentionally or by negligence and/or stupidity misdeliver the mail to the wrong address. A shanda how a fine institution has been allowed to be destroyed from within!
My shul sent my neighbor and myself first class letters. Both were returned to the shul. They were hand delivered to us, perfectly addressed, together with apt. #, zip code, everything that the post office says should be on the letter. I brought it in to Midwood. What do you all think happened? NOTHING!! When I expect a pa ckage, I get a question from the company it was shipped from, What condition did the package arrive in? My answere: Sorry, it did not get here yet!! That is the Post office!!
Unions! Blame the Unions!
If the USPS weren’t powerless to fire worker too lazy, incompetent, or brainless to do their job, with the amount of money they have, the level of sophistication and size of their infrastructure, and with the right management in place, the USPS could probably equal UPS and FedEx out of business within a year, and put at least one of them out of business in five.
True story:
Back in 1995 I had some dealings with a post office and they asked me to send them a certain document to resolve the issue.
I said, “Great, I’ll send it over right now; what’s your fax number?”
The person I was speaking with at the post office said matter-of-fact, “Oh, we don’t have fax machines.”
I was completely shocked and asked why not.
He answered, “Fax machines are our competition so we don’t use them.”
To #14 The Post Office on Coney Island Ave is between Ave I and Avenue J. You are right, I have spent many an hour there as well. Too few clerks!!
As a conservative, I never get all the liberals who hate the post office. The reason is because the government is too busy giving away money to fund things its CONSTITUTIONALLY OBLIGATED to fund. Outside of the military and border guards, its about the only other true function of the federal government, to provide post. So lets stop all wellfare programs, and build a new better more efficient post!
As a conservative, I never get all the liberals who hate the post office. The reason is because the government is too busy giving away money to fund things its CONSTITUTIONALLY OBLIGATED to fund. Outside of the military and border guards, its about the only other true function of the federal government, to provide post. So lets stop all wellfare programs, and build a new better more efficient post!
Try the P.O on Nostrand Ave Bet J and I….oy…